When I was small, my parents and I would go fishing. As a small child, I saw that the fish were eating the worms. I realized that if they ate the worms, I would also be eating worms when I ate the fish. I couldn't eat fish until I was over thirty years old.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F